Columbus was looking for a SEA route to India and China because nearly 40 years earlier Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 cutting off the...
"Society ... must repose on principles that do not change" -- wrote Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748, Book 24.
Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose books...
Harvard University students hosting anti-Hamas speaker Mosab Hassan Yousef for a lecture last week were informed that protesters would be allowed up to 10 minutes to disrupt the event before being removed.
The most common form of government in world history is power concentrated into the hands of one person.
This person is called by different names in different countries: King, Khan,...
In 1655, British Admiral William Penn, the father of Pennsylvania's founder, captured Jamaica from the Spanish.
As Jamaica was too far from England be defended, inhabitants turned to privateers, freebooters, buccaneers and pirates...
USA Today ran the headlines, April 11, 2024: "Voters, fearful of World War III as Iran strikes Israel."
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8,...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York.He was baptized at St. James' Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, New York.
Roosevelt was home-schooled till...
U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and other agencies report that children from fatherless homes are:
Five times more likely to live...
